For IronworkThursday, here’s a splendid tomb enclosure/mortsafe I saw at Elgin Cathedral recently. According to the inscription it was erected by John Forsyth, the Ironmonger in Elgin, in 1810, in memory of his wife and other family members.
Yesterday’s stops en route to friends in Inverness: the gorgeous Huntly Castle, and Spynie Palace with its enormous towerhouse.
Visited a couple of bucket-list castles on this trip. The remains of the great Kildrummy Castle, and the precarious ruin of Old Slains Castle.
Day one of my week of excavation at a RB site somewhere in deepest Wiltshire. Spent it helping to uncover a layer of rubble from the collapse or demolition of a building.
One for Norn Irn chums, a wee bit of Belfast in deepest Surrey. These are the remains of the Temple of the Four Winds, built c. 1910 for Viscount Pirrie (of Harland & Wolff/Titanic fame) overlooking his Witley Court estate. Demolished in 1966, leaving an archaeological puzzle in its paved floor.
Amazing results of GPR survey at Helmsley Castle by my esteemed former colleagues. historicengland.org.uk/research/res...
Research Report for Helmsley Castle, Hemsley, North Yorkshire: Report on Geophysical Survey, June 2023
What Stephen said. Over 60, never voted Tory, will vote tactically against them.
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For Ironwork Thursday, some more firebacks from the Mitford collection displayed in the service wing at NT Petworth House. More about the collection at www.wealdeniron.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Before the storms - images from a recent walk at Frensham, with sunset over the frozen Little Pond (a medieval fishpond associated with Farnham Castle).
